U.S. History

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Library Catalog 
Databases 
Government Sites and Resources 
Open CourseWare  
TEL Tutor
   (Training on the Tennessee Electronic Library) *NEW* 
Web Resources 
Other Libraries 

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Fountainhead Library Catalog of Print and Media Resources

Databases

• Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL). All of the below, recommended databases are available on TEL via the Fountainhead Library except one. Instructions for accessing the latter are noted with it. Find TEL password here. TEL Tutor. 

     Multi-Subject Databases

Academic OneFile
Expanded Academic ASAP
General OneFile 

    Subject-Dedicated Databases

Diversity Studies Collection
Pop Culture Collection

   Reference Databases

Most multi-subject databases also include reference materials.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
General Reference Center Gold

   News Databases (For a fuller discussion of how to find newspapers etc., see News Access.)

InfoTrac Newsstand
National Newspaper Index

• Google Scholar    Simple Search          Precision Search
  Caveat: Not all scholarly articles indexed in Google Scholar are free, but some are.
  
  
  • JSTOR (jay-store) has made available, free of charge, all materials published before 1923. Please see a few important  JSTOR search tips.

Government Sites and Resources

• Bills and Laws of Congress, back to 1989 (101^st Congress) via Thomas 
• Code of Federal Regulations 
• Citizenship and Immigration Service, Bureau of
• Civil Rights, Commission on
• Humanities, National Endowment for the
• Indian Affairs, Bureau of
  
  
• Library of Congress
  • American History Topics  Organized by eras and topics.
  • Government, Politics, and Law  Topics include: the branches of government, the constitution, elections and voting, and civil rights.
    
    
• National Archives.   Research by Topic  
  •    Archival Databases (AAD): Browse by Subject
  •    Archival Research Catalog (ARC) Topics    
  •    America's Historical Documents. Images 

• Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Encyclopedia
• U.S. Government Photos and Images
• White House  Briefing RoomHistory

• Supreme Court of the United States

Open CourseWare (OCW) 

Open CourseWare Consortium  Home Page. OCW Consortium offers a single-site access window into courseware uploaded from very many institutions of higher education, including some very high-quality ones, such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Univeristy of Michigan, and University of California-Irvine.

OCW COURSE LISTING BREAKDOWNS. Numbers listed below are the approximate (~) number of courses in English, from all institutions, discovered by search on the quoted term, June 25, 2012. The site can be searched by any word or phrase; and additional paths of discovery are available also.

     OCW: "American History"  ~80 
     OCW: "'United States' History"  ~15
     OCW: "U. S. Government"  ~10

Web Resources

• History.com. Topics.  Caveat: commercial television publications.
• Internet Movie Database IMDb.
• History resources via the Internet Public Library 2 (IPL2)
• “U.S. Constitution.” A video-illustrated presentation of how the Constitution established and maintains the U.S. Government. Features Chief Justice John Roberts live and other prominent speakers on recordings. 9/5/2006. C-SPAN video. 18 minutes. 
• U.S. History.org
  
  

Suggestions for the content of this page are welcome.

Updated: 11/14/2012